Bus beheading trial ends with both sides seeking same verdict

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A two-day Winnipeg trial in a case of killing and beheading on a Greyhound bus ended Wednesday with both sides seeking the same verdict — not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder.
Vincent Li, seen in a courtroom sketch, listens to proceedings during his second-degree murder trial in Winnipeg.Vincent Li, seen in a courtroom sketch, listens to proceedings during his second-degree murder trial in Winnipeg. (Tom Andrich/Canadian Press)

The judge said he will deliver his verdict at 10 a.m. CT on Thursday.

Psychiatrists for the Crown and the defence agreed during the short trial that Vince Li, 40, was suffering from schizophrenia and did not know what he was doing when he killed 22-year-old Timothy McLean of Winnipeg on a bus in Manitoba last July.

The psychiatrists said Li believed he was acting on orders from God when he attacked McLean, mutilating the young man before decapitating him and eating part of the body.
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Both psychiatrists said that Li, although he is very ill, could one day be rehabilitated and returned to society.


First I'd like to comment on the cop who first arrived at the scene of the attack , and upon noticing the victem was already dead and Vince Li was still stabbing him, herded all thirty passengers in front of the bus so they could see in the front window and witness the events still transpiring there in.

It is interesting that at the time the newsies widely condemed him for exposing those people to such trama. Yet at the same time this trial suddenly became an open and shut case with both prosecuter and defence wrapping it all up in lightning fast time.

Bet that cop is getting a lot of congradulations from his police buddies now. *grins*

How fickle fate is , one day your a villian , the next a hero.

Second. I think Vince Li should be locked up and we should throw away the key. Why ? Is it because I don't believe he's guilty ? Is it because I think he was faking mental illness ?

Nope. It's because I'm afraid. I'm terrified this psychopath (literally ! No exageration in this case !) might some day be allowed to walk the streets a free man. And I might be his next victem.

The public has a right to be safe. We have a right to have the mad dogs shot , the wolves who've tasted blood destroyed , whatever you want to call it. Because the truth of the matter is , civilization is a thin layer of habit we learn over a life time. Underneath it all , we are all wild animals, and killing our fellow man is not an act of insanity , it's actually normal operating proceedure for our species of being. Whether he's insane or not is irrelvant. The wolf has tasted blood , and wants more. And must be put down.